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The first votes have been cast in the Super Tuesday U.S. presidential primaries with Democratic Party candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and Republicans John McCain, Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee vying for key victories in the race for the White House. Voters in 24 states, including New York and California, are going to the polls.

Zimbabwe’s former finance minister Simba Makoni announced Tuesday he will try to unseat President Robert Mugabe in next month’s election.

A new Iraqi flag flew for the first time in Baghdad Tuesday morning.

The CIA director on Tuesday publicly named for the first time the three suspected al Qaeda detainees who were subjected to the harsh interrogation technique of waterboarding.

The death toll from post-election violence in Kenya climbed to more than 1,000 Tuesday as government and opposition politicians discussed plans that could eventually lead to a power-sharing agreement.

Fighting has stopped — at least for now — in the Chadian capital of N’Djamena, a Chadian diplomat told CNN on Tuesday, as aid agencies struggled to care for more than 20,000 refugees across the border in Cameroon.

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